Stop Greying Out Closed Posts & editing post problems

hey guys is there any way to stop closed posts from being closed? when i close a post at the moment it makes the text of the title become greye d out which makes it rather difficult to read, not particularly great for forum rules posts etc when your on a light background.

Secondly

It would appear that there is an issue with editing posts, I just made a post using an admin account and then attempted to edit a mistake i had made, and while it brought up the text box to allow me to edit it didnt give me any buttons etc with which to save the edit, any ideas?